Let's hope I can get somewhere. I just got the 7870 LE crunching, 8 WUs to start. I shall see where we go from there. I really need to get a CPU cooler for this 3770k though, temps in the 70's My god, those are terrible.

I'm using a horrible Blackhawk Advanced from back in the day, been sitting in the storage closet outside. It has a big side fan that will probably get in the way of most big coolers. I used to have a Zalman 9700 and it barely cleared, mm or 2 of space.

I'll check your link now.

edit: it may be too big it says 120mm and the zalman I had was 110 and barely cleared. Who knows...

I'd like to get an itx build going and throw the new system into that, and I could sport an h60 or something.

I'm using a horrible Blackhawk Advanced from back in the day, been sitting in the storage closet outside. It has a big side fan that will probably get in the way of most big coolers. I used to have a Zalman 9700 and it barely cleared, mm or 2 of space.

I'll check your link now.

edit: it may be too big it says 120mm and the zalman I had was 110 and barely cleared. Who knows...

I'd like to get an itx build going and throw the new system into that, and I could sport an h60 or something.

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That case is a little wider than a NZXT Source 210 so it should fit (only issue would be the side panel fan like you said... is it removable or remountable on the outside of the case?)

An H60 could be mounted on the outside of the rear fan hole if you need the room

iirc the Gaia can be mounted to blow up thru the top (Ion did this?)... this may get you the clearance from the side fan.... would definitely need low profile ram if you did it that way though

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I'm going to check into it tomorrow, thanks. I'm super tired now: long day of work and then a long night of rearranging all my junk, both pcs, desks, everything.

The ram is the really low profile Samsung ram, no heatspreader, so anything should work for clearance. I took 8GB from my main rig and dropped it into the second rig; I didn't ever use 16GB anyway Thanks for your help tonight

That's like the guy with the STI asking to race the Civic But thanks for offering

Let's hope I can get somewhere. I just got the 7870 LE crunching, 8 WUs to start. I shall see where we go from there. I really need to get a CPU cooler for this 3770k though, temps in the 70's My god, those are terrible.

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Not sure what a STI is...

And at 4GHz on the stock cooler, my 3770k was pushing 85C--not too fun. The H50 does better, although it's still hot

Good work everyone. Need to find out why my dad's machine with dual 7770s barely outputs anything and reboots itself intermittently, sometimes booting up with a "boot device not found" screen. Changed SATA ports and cables as well as PSUs with no change, so I wonder if the ASUS 890GX mobo is taking a crap.

Good work everyone. Need to find out why my dad's machine with dual 7770s barely outputs anything and reboots itself intermittently, sometimes booting up with a "boot device not found" screen. Changed SATA ports and cables as well as PSUs with no change, so I wonder if the ASUS 890GX mobo is taking a crap.

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Definitely sounds flaky, that rig should do 70k ppd easy. What ram is it using and is the ram oc'd?

Definitely sounds flaky, that rig should do 70k ppd easy. What ram is it using and is the ram oc'd?

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It had 4x4GB Ripjaws 1333 CL9 non-overclocked, and I took two out. I need to check Event Viewer as the BCCodes I've seen were atypical, and I don't even think it realizes it experienced an unclean shutdown sometimes. Makes me wonder if the Crucial M4 64GB is flaking out (as we were close to RMAing it two months ago due to it locking itself down due to "power failure failsafe" or some junk Crucial SSDs have.